Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al-Saud

Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (1942-) was Minister of the Interior of Saudi Arabia from 18 June to 5 November 2012, succeeding Nayef bin Abdulaziz al-Saud and preceding Muhammad bin Nayef.

Biography
Ahmed was born in 1942, the 31st son of King Ibn Saud and Hussa bint Ahmed al-Sudairi and the youngest of his seven children with Hussa. He was schooled in the United States and graduated from the University of Redlands in 1968 with a B.A. in political science, and he dealt with business after his graduation. From 1975 to 2012 he served as Deputy Minister of the Interior under Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, and he was mostly involved in administration and not security. Ahmed was an enemy of terrorism, saying that it was incompatible with Islam, and he proposed building a border fence with Iraq in 2006, a project which was started soon after. From June to November 2012, he served as Minister of the Interior after his brother's death, but his nephew Muhammad bin Nayef would later succeed him.